Tomato problems/blight

[bus]

A mate on another board is having grief with her tomato plants.

I thought I'd raise her pain with you lot, cos you seem quite clever in the veg department. Can anyone offer any suggestions?

My tomato plant on the other hand appears to be the one now giving up the will to live I have lots unripe fruit but all the leaves are going yellow and falling off.... Any advice? I've given it a feed and the soil is wet but not waterlogged. The stem seems to be going a bit of a funny colour too Nothing will have been done with it while I was away last weekend but I've never grown toms before so I don't really know if I should have forced my other half to water it every day?? (Not that he'd have done it mind you )

 

[alien nation]

Could be magnesium deficiency if the leaves are turning yellow between the veins. A spray or feed with magnesium should help.

Tomatoes also suffer if they are over watered or left to dry out then watered.

 

[Pieface]

You could tell her about mine - I've fucked 14 plants so far this summer.

 

[northernhord]

Tomz are suffering everywhere this year, tiz this twatting weather.

 

[mr steev]

The stem seems to be going a bit of a funny colour too

If the stem is going black, then the chances are it's late blight... I've lost over 20 plants to it this year!

I doubt very much that it's due to not watering enough! More than likely too much. Take the yellowing leaves off and any fruit if they start going black and keep your fingers crossed.

 

[zuszsa]

Green tomato chutney, it's the only thing to be done

 

[bus]

i've passed all those on, and she said to say thanks

so,erm, thanks

 

[Spion]

I think it's too much water - it 'drowns' the roots and stops em taking on oxygen. Mine have suffered the same yellow leaf thing and are generally weak than they otherwise would be. Your mate's fruits are looking pretty good, if she doesn't mind me saying

 

[gentlegreen]

Extreme magnesium / nitrogen deficiency at the very least.
Quite likely other nutrients too.

Loads of possible causes though - including overwatering.

 

[aqua]

all the rain is basically leaching out all the minerals from the soil so no matter if you feed them, the next rain storm robs the minerals back out anyway

I'm in 2 minds whether to just take out 2 of my tomato plants, the fruit just doesn't look anywhere near ready to even start growing let alone ripen and as I grow only cherry tomatoes, I won't even get enough to turn into green chutney

one plant is OK though, but the other 2 a right off

 

[jusali]

If the stem is going black, then the chances are it's late blight... I've lost over 20 plants to it this year!

I doubt very much that it's due to not watering enough! More than likely too much. Take the yellowing leaves off and any fruit if they start going black and keep your fingers crossed.

Me too!

 

[mr steev]

Me too!

and I don't think we are in the minority

Thankfully a have a few plants in pots at home which are doing a lot better... one producing loads of ripe fruit at the mo

Tomatoes also suffer if they are ... left to dry out then watered.

Probably not much chance of that happening just yet, but more of a risk now there's the odd sunny day or two. The fruit will start to split if this is the case

 

[alien nation]

Grrr! I've got late blight too now . The allotment got flooded too which included a mix of human shit

 

[moon]

Tomato Virus

Arrgh all my outdoor tomato plants are getting the stooopid blight thing, apparently whole allotment sites are covered in diseased tomato plants.

Has anyone else go this? any tips for damage limitation??

 

[editor]

There's a thread on it here: http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=216548

I've got two lots of tomatoes and one lot look just like the ones pictured in the first post (although I'm still getting some lovely ripe tomatoes out of it).

Hang on, I'll merge the two threads...

 

[moon]

The greenhouse tomatoes are fine, ripening fruit and no blight, I just forget to water them and they're about half the size of the outdoors ones.

The outdoors plants are getting black stems and black blotches on the fruit....arrrghhh this happened last year too!!!!! Its a soil virus that spreads when water splashes from the soil onto the plants.

My mum has a chemical to control it but I think my tomatoes are too far gone now....sigh..

Next year I'll only have greenhouse tomatoes!!!!!

 

[moomoo]

My tomato plants look like shit. They are all yellow and drooping and that's just the ones that aren't actually dead.

And I've not had even one tomato yet.

 

[mr steev]

Its a soil virus that spreads when water splashes from the soil onto the plants.

Late blight isn't a soil virus. It's one of the few fungi that can't survive in soil or on dead plants.
It either comes from infected spuds or transplanted tomatoes or it is blown in on the wind... and if it's wet it will stick to the plants.

It's what was responsible for the potato famine in Ireland. Our spuds and everyone's up the plot are suffering too. We've got a sackfull already that had to be pulled, and plenty more to come